The Governor directs it to be notified that the Bay at the northern extremity of the waters called in the chart of Flinders Port Philip, has been by the command of His Excellency named "HOBSON'S BAY" and that he has ordered the sites of two towns to be laid out, the one on the western shore of Hobson's Bay being called "WILLIAMS TOWN", and the other on the right bank of the Yarra River, which discharges into that Bay, being named "MELBOURNE".

By His Excellency's Command
E. DEAS THOMSON